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Will I be an athlete when I am older?
I am a 14 year old boy and I run 3 times a week in the morning. I run 3 and a half miles which is 5400 meters. I run it fairly easily. When I see the athletes on the TV running 5000 meters I wonder if I keep going will I be as good as them? They train really hard for it and eat clean, I have only trained by running 3 times a week and I eat fairly healthy and I can already do what they can. Does this mean that I will be as good as them?
I also ran for my school and came 2nd in my county, and 32nd in my country, Wales.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
It sounds like you should join your school's cross country team or track team. Motivation and belief in one's self are vital to a successful runner and it seems you already have those two things which many elite runners lack.
With that being said, the obvious barrier isn't distance, it's Speed. The Olympic runners can run 5k times 4 or 5 minutes faster than an average senior cross country runner in highschool can. If you want to become an athlete when you're older, you miss as well get started now. What I suggest is increasing your days per week to 5 and then slowly increasing your mileage. Start counting your miles based on weeks (right now it sounds like you're hitting 10.5 a week). You will want to add NO MORE than 15% a week, but stick closer to 10%. When you join a team, stop using my advice and use your coaches advice.